Usually means: Difficult situation with serious consequences.
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  1. the devil to pay: Merriam-Webster
  2. the devil to pay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. the devil to pay: Collins English Dictionary
  4. the devil to pay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. the devil to pay: Dictionary.com
  6. The Devil to Pay, The Devil to Pay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. the devil to pay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Devil to pay, the: World Wide Words


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